Solutions Architect, Managed Services

Working at NTT
Key roles and responsibilities:

Listen /elicit customer requirements and document the user/customer story.
Contributes to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure, or functional areas.
Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.
Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.
Supports a change programme or project through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles that comply with enterprise and solution architecture standards.
Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution.
Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies.
Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.
Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.
Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements, including proof of concept (POC).
Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications.
Contribute to the development of new go to market services and contributes knowledge on relevant verticals.
Operate across both the technical levels within the enterprise architecture and the value chain in order to develop holistic and integrated solutions.
Work with commercial Architects to develop a cost /contract term.

Knowledge, skills and attributes

Solid knowledge of multi-vendor service integrations and cross-functional software, OS’s and infrastructure designs
Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
Knowledgeable on how specific infrastructures and application software are deployed in line with relevant methodologies and frameworks
Ability to develop and leverage their knowledge of reference architectures
Ability to maintain knowledge of trends and development in technology domains.
A hunter with superb communication Skills  

Academic qualifications and certifications:

Tertiary level – bachelor’s with 7 yrs. experience; or post-graduate degree with at least 3 years’ experience in a consulting capacity/working in a vendor/ partner environment.
Experience in sales of platform based managed service is a distinct advantage.
Practitioner certificates with reputable global cloud services provider such as AWS, Google, Microsoft.
Certification and working knowledge of ITIL, Service Management and Integration, Business Analysis -CBAP
Scaled Agile certification/Scrum /PRINCE 2
TOGAF certification will be an added advantage.

Experience required:

Solid professional technical, IT or Operations experience within a large scale (preferably multi- national) technology services environment on the following areas: Software Development, Application Support and Infrastructure Support
Some Project or Program Management experience is preferred.
Proven client engagement and consulting experience coupled with solid experience in client needs assessment and change management.
Proven experience in integrating the solution for the project with the business domain, enterprise concerns, industry standards, established patterns and best practices.
Experience working in an agile development environment

Additional Job Description

Seasoned and experienced professional
Has full understanding of specialisation area
Resolves wide range of issues in creative ways
Fully qualified, career level, career journey-orientated • Uses good judgement in selecting tools and methods to solve problems
Networks with senior internal and external people in own area of expertise
Receives little instruction on day-to-day work, receives general instructions on new assignments

Apply via :

careers.services.global.ntt